Classic Movie Quotations: Numbers & Titles A-B

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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968):

• "The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made.  No 9000 series has ever made a mistake or distorted information.  We are all, by any practical definition of the word, fool-proof and incapable of error." --Hal.
• "Would you like to play a game of chess?  I play very well." --Hal.
• "I know that you were planning to disconnect me and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen." --Hal.
• "Everything is going extremely well." --Hal.
• "I feel much better now." --Hal.
• "Good afternoon, gentlemen.  I am a Hal 9000 computer.  I became operational at the H-A-L lab in Urbana, Illinois on the twelfth of January, 1992.  I am completely operational and all my circuits are functioning perfectly." --Hal.
• "It can only be attributable to human error." --Hal.
• "Just a moment." --Hal.
• "Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?" --Hal.
• "I can see you're really upset about this.  I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over." --Hal.
• "Everything's running smoothly." --Hal.
• "Just what do you think you're doing?" --Hal.

THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938):

• "Why, you speak treason!" --Olivia de Havilland.
         "Fluently." --Errol Flynn.
• "Welcome to Sherwood, my lady.  What, Sir Guy?  No greeting from you?" --Errol Flynn.
• "There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley." --Claude Rains.

THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951):

• "I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!" --Katharine Hepburn.
• "Nature, Mr. Alnutt, is what we are put in this world to rise above." --Katharine Hepburn.
• "What an absurd idea! What an absurd idea! Lady, you got ten absurd ideas for my one! Ha." --Humphrey Bogart.

ALL ABOUT EVE (1950):

• "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." --Bette Davis.
• "Nothing is forever in the theatre. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up, burns hot, and then it's gone." --Celeste Holm.
• "I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours." --George Sanders.
• "I don't think that's funny." --Bette Davis.
• "I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut." --Bette Davis.
• "We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night. Aren't we, honey?" --Bette Davis.
• "You're not much of a bargain, you know. You're conceited and thoughtless and messy." --Bette Davis.

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944):

• "Insanity runs in my family... It practically gallops!" --Cary Grant.
• "Holy Mackerel!" --Cary Grant.

THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY (1949):

• "I didn't think she was as cute as all that." --Fred Astaire.
         "Well, not quite as cute as all that, Mr. Barkley." --Ginger Rogers (an .MP3 file courtesy Andrew).

BEYOND THE FOREST (1949):

• "What a dump!" --Bette Davis.

BIG JAKE (1971):

• "Well son, since you haven't learned to respect your elders, it's time you learned to respect your betters." --John Wayne.
• "I thought you were dead, Mr. McCandles." --Jim Davis.
         "Not hardly." --John Wayne.
• "Let's go home." --Patrick Wayne.
  

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961):

• "How do I look?" --Audrey Hepburn.
• "'S alright. It's only me." --Audrey Hepburn.
            "Uh... Now wait a minute, Miss... uh..." --George Peppard.
            "Golightly.  Holly Golightly.  I live downstairs.  We met this morning, remember?" --Audrey Hepburn.
            "Yeah..." --George Peppard.
• "I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before.  With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before." --George Peppard.
• "It should take you exactly four seconds to cross from here to that door.  I'll give you two." --Audrey Hepburn.
• "Don't you just love it?" --Audrey Hepburn.
            "Love what?" --George Peppard.
            "Tiffany's!" --Audrey Hepburn.
• "Sing Sing?" --George Peppard.
            she gargles. "Yes. I always thought it was a ridiculous name for a prison.  Sing Sing, I mean.  Sounds more like it should be an opera house or something." --Audrey Hepburn.
• she whistles. "I never could to that." --George Peppard.
            "'S easy." --Audrey Hepburn.
• "As Miss Golightly was saying before she was so rudely interrupted..." --Audrey Hepburn.

THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957):

• "We can teach these barbarians a lesson in Western methods and efficiency that will put them to shame. We'll show them what the British soldier is capable of doing." --Alec Guinness.

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969):

• "Boy, I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals." --Paul Newman.
• "Well, ya know, 'could be worse." --Paul Newman.

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